Word Meanings - PHYTOCHEMISTRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Chemistry in its relation to vegetable bodies; vegetable chemistry. R. Hunt.

Related words: (words related to PHYTOCHEMISTRY)

• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• CHEMISTRY
  1. That branch of science which treats of the composition of substances, and of the changes which they undergo in consequence of alterations in the constitution of the molecules, which depend upon variations of the number, kind, or mode
• RELATIONAL
  1. Having relation or kindred; related. We might be tempted to take these two nations for relational stems. Tooke. 2. Indicating or specifying some relation. Relational words, as prepositions, auxiliaries, etc. R. Morris.
• VEGETABLE
  Plants having distinct flowers and true seeds. { 1. Dicotyledons . -- Seeds with two or more cotyledons. Stems with the pith, woody fiber, and bark concentrically arranged. Divided into two subclasses: Angiosperms, having the woody fiber
• RELATION
  1. The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events. relation doth well figure them. Bacon. 2. The state of being related or of referring; what is apprehended
• RELATIONIST
  A relative; a relation.
• IATROCHEMISTRY
  Chemistry applied to, or used in, medicine; -- used especially with reference to the doctrines in the school of physicians in Flanders, in the 17th century, who held that health depends upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body,
• MISRELATION
  Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
• MACRO-CHEMISTRY
  The science which treats of the chemical properties, actions or relations of substances in quantity; -- distinguished from micro- chemistry.
• IRRELATION
  The quality or state of being irrelative; want of connection or relation.
• ZOOCHEMISTRY; ZOOECHEMISTRY
  Animal chemistry; particularly, the description of the chemical compounds entering into the composition of the animal body, in distinction from biochemistry.
• ALCHEMISTRY
  Alchemy.
• GEOCHEMISTRY
  The study of the chemical composition of, and of actual or possible chemical changes in, the crust of the earth. -- Ge`o*chem"ic*al , a. --Ge`o*chem"ist , n.
• PHOTOCHEMISTRY
  The branch of chemistry which relates to the effect of light in producing chemical changes, as in photography.
• PHYTOCHEMISTRY
  Chemistry in its relation to vegetable bodies; vegetable chemistry. R. Hunt.
• CO-RELATION
  Corresponding relation.
• BIOCHEMISTRY
  The chemistry of living organisms; the chemistry of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.
• THERMOCHEMISTRY
  That branch of chemical science which includes the investigation of the various relations existing between chemical action and that manifestation of force termed heat, or the determination of the heat evolved by, or employed in, chemical actions.
• PRELATION
  The setting of one above another; preference. Jer. Taylor.
• INTERRELATION
  Mutual or reciprocal relation; correlation.
• CORRELATION
  Reciprocal relation; corresponding similarity or parallelism of relation or law; capacity of being converted into, or of giving place to, one another, under certain conditions; as, the correlation of forces, or of zymotic diseases. Correlation of